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You may call them volunteers, civic soldiers, or community caregivers but they all have something in common – a desire to give back to the place they call home for a better future. America’s WETLAND Foundation (AWF) called for volunteers to join with e-Rotary Coastal in planting a thousand Bald Cypress trees to reconstitute an...

As the sun set on Tiger Stadium in the fall of 2003, Louisiana’s Governor, state and local legislators and officials, leaders of industry, coastal communities and the non-profit sector gathered to build their case for saving coastal Louisiana. Called by the America’s WETLAND Foundation (AWF) to view the Jumbotron screens, the football field was soon...

BATON ROUGE, LA – The America’s WETLAND Foundation applauds Governor John Bel Edwards’ commitment to Louisiana’s coast and his announcement today to restore to the state’s coastal program $55 million in surplus dollars that were swept by the Jindal Administration. The dollars will now go where they were meant to go – to critically needed coastal...

Year-End Findings View State Master Plan with Generational Timelines in Mind BATON ROUGE, LA – Calling on all sectors of Louisiana to adjust to a “new normal” when viewing life and commerce in the state’s coastal zone, a diverse group of leaders, including Governor John Bel Edwards, has painted a picture of coastal conditions and...

BATON ROUGE, LA – The saying, “nothing remains constant except change itself,” could have been the theme of the Coastal Wetland Communities Leadership Forum hosted by the America’s WETLAND Foundation (AWF) in partnership with and sponsored by BHP on August 29, 2018, at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. That sentiment runs through the Forum’s a findings report released today; thinking in...

ADAPTING TO INCREASED RISK: FORUM AT NICHOLLS EXAMINES COASTAL RESILIENCY Thibodaux, LA – The America’s WETLAND Foundation (AWF), in partnership with BHP and Resource Environmental Solutions (RES), today convened community, business and civic leaders at the Coastal Wetland Communities Adaptation Leadership Forum held at Nicholls State University to face the challenges of adapting to higher land...

AMERICA’S WETLAND MESSAGES AT THE GAS PUMP Restoring Coastal Wetlands One Gallon at a Time Baton Rouge, LA – Known for raising awareness of the debilitating impact coastal land loss is having on Louisiana, America’s WETLAND Foundation (AWF) today released a series of fifteen second interstitials , calling for motorists to help turn back the tide of coastal erosion. The short...

HOUMA, LOUISIANA – Where stands of bald cypress once gave definition to swamps of the lower Mississippi Delta, officials from the State of Louisiana and Terrebonne Parish, private sponsors of the America’s WETLAND Foundation ( AWF), Resource Environmental Solutions (RES), and global energy producer, BHP, stood at the edge of wetland destruction to announce new projects The Terrebonne Biodiversity and...

Two-Year’s Later, Waterway Embankment Demonstration Proves Solutions Effective Baton Rouge, LA – In what may offer lasting promise for wetland restoration projects across the Gulf Coast, an assessment by the America’s WETLAND Foundation (AWF) at the two-year mark of a project to secure the shoreline embankment along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) near LaRose, LA,...